Feds have a ‘lock’ on ya, Cohen

Michael Cohen can't fix this.

The embattled ex-attorney to President Trump will almost certainly get prison time at his sentencing in a Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday morning after pleading guilty to bank fraud and campaign finance violations.

The 52-year-old former fixer (photo) was once one of the President's strongest advocates, bragging that he would “take a bullet” for Trump.

But he has lost some of his swagger since he first burst into the public eye, flipping on his former patron to shave some days off what could be a significant prison stretch.

Cohen's less-than enthusiastic cooperation, which came late in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, stuck in the craw of federal prosecutors.

Though he was prosecuted by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, any leniency he will get will be through his cooperation with the special counsel.

Manhattan prosecutors urged Federal Judge William Pauley to hand down a “substantial sentence” of between four and five years of hard time for the campaign finance crimes, perjury, and tax and bank fraud Cohen has been convicted of, and legal experts said it's all but certain he will soon be reporting to prison.

While New York prosecutors hammered Cohen for directing election-interfering hush money payments to Trump's alleged paramours and cheating the government out of millions of dollars, Mueller gave him some credit for cooperating in his investigation into possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.

“Southern District of New York judges certainly don't just do what prosecutors say they should do, but I think in Cohen's case, it seems more likely than not that he's going behind bars,” Harry Sandick, a former assistant Manhattan U.S. attorney, told the Daily News.